This light brown horse is the most common horse, and has a 50% chance to spawn, but it's also the slowest with speed of 0.9 and the weakest with only 25 hitpoints.
Brown
Brown Horse
This darker brown horse is the second most common horse with a 35% chance to spawn. It's also the third slowest horse with a speed of 1.0. And the second weakest with just 30 hitpoints.
Black
Black Horse
This black horse is the third most common horse with a 9% chance to spawn. It's the fourth slowest horse with a speed of 1.1 And the third weakest horse with 35 hitpoints
Unicorn
Unicorn
The unicorn is white with a yellow stripe and has a yellow horn on the middle of its head. It's one of the two rarest horses with only 4% chance to spawn. The unicorn is one of the three fastest horses with a speed of 1.3. It is the second strongest horse with 40 hitpoints.
Pegasus
Pegasus
This is the rarest horse you can obtain without breeding, with only a 1% chance to spawn. It has wings and is one of the two flyable horses. It's the fourth fastest horse with a speed of 1.2 and one of the strongest horses with 40 hitpoints.
Press and hold down the jump button (default is spacebar) in order to fly upwards. Release it to slowly descend. Flying horses always flap their wings constantly for as long as they are being ridden, regardless of whether they are flying or not. It spawns in the extreme hills biome.
Pack Horse
Pack Horse
Pack Horses can only be obtained through breeding, but once tamed you can give it a chest to have an inventory. This is very useful for long distance traveling. These are one of the slowest horses with a speed of only 0.9, but one of the second strongest with 40 hitpoints. If you want to store items in your Pack Horse's/Black Pegasus's inventory, you need to make a chest, and right-click on the horse with it, and a backpack shall be added to the saddle.
In order to use the backpack, right click the horse with either a stone shovel or a torch while not riding.
Nightmare
Nightmare
Nightmare horses can only be obtained through breeding. They are very fast and fire resistant. If you feed it Redstone, it will run faster and will leave fire behind it. These are some of the fastest horses with a speed of 1.3 and some of the strongest with 50 hipoints.
Black Pegasus
Black Pegasus
Black Pegasus' can only be obtained by breeding. It's fire resistant, has its own inventory, and can fly; It is generally the best horse there is. It's also one of the fastest horses with a speed of 1.3 and one of the strongest with 50 hitpoints. These are one of the coolest horses.
Taming
Taming horses is a complex process. Before you begin taming, you must put a saddle on the Horse by holding the saddle and right clicking on the horse. Next you must feed them to reduce their temper. Each type of horse has an amount of temper that must be removed before it is considered tame. Different foods will reduce temper by different amounts. Here are all foods that can currently (V2.7) be used to reduce temper. Once tamed a horse will not despawn although they will still roam a few blocks away if you use a horse saddle and not a normal saddle.
To feed a horse, hold the food you wish to feed it then right click on the horse. As of V2.7 and earlier there is a bug that causes you to eat a sugar Lump when feeding it to a horse, using 2 Sugar Lumps per right click. After reducing temper to 25 or lower the horse must be ridden to complete taming. An additional feeding may be necessary whilst on the horse, giving the player a prompt to name your pet. It is recommended that you reduce temper as much as possible before attempting to ride a horse. To ride a horse right click it while not holding food. While being tamed, horses will buck you off, possibly several times, possibly causing fall damage. To dismount the horse, press the SHIFT key.
Breeding
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To breed horses you will require:
2 pumpkins/mushroom stew/cake
2 non-sterile or Fertile horses (accepts pumpkins, mushroom stew or cake)
A place where they are within 4 squares of each other and 8 squares minimum away from you and other horses
5 minutes or half a Minecraft day
To breed horses you need to give each of the them a pumpkin or mushroom stew. One of the two that you feed the pumpkin/stew to will become sterile and not be able to breed again unless "Easy Breeding" is on in the mod's options when the foal is born. Turning Easy Breeding on after a horse becomes sterile will not allow it to breed.
After about 5 minutes there will be a third horse. There is a 1/3 chance of this horse being a rare breed unless using "Easy Breeding" in which there is a 100% chance. The exact type of rare breed is determined by the total genetic value (TGV) of the parent horses.
Horse
Genetic Value
TGV To Breed
Light horses
1
Brown horses
2
Dark horses
3
Unicorns
4
Pegasus
5
10
Pack horse
6
7
Nightmare
7
9
Black Pegasus
8
12
Note that the total genetic value must EQUAL these numbers. If the value is 13 or higher it cannot produce a Black Pegasus. If the TGV cannot produce a rare breed you will get a random horse with genetic value 1-5. Also two Packhorses, although their TGV is 12, does not produce a Black Pegasus. The only ways to breed a Black Pegasus is either a Black Pegasus, and a Unicorn, or a Pegasus, and a Nightmare.
Also I have found that breeding a Pegasus with a horse does not do anything, and they might not be able to, but I would like someone to verify this for me.
Before you can put a saddle on the new horse it must be fully grown. This happens naturally over the course of several minutes. To speed up the growing process feed the horse (this may not count towards reducing their temper).
Proper Storage And Care Of Your Horse
Horses have a tendency to wander so if you want to keep track of them, it's important that you contain them properly. It's important that there be no grass in their enclosure as predator mobs may spawn. While horses normally require a 2x2 space to move through, it's possible for them to glitch through smaller gaps so eliminating gaps in their pen is a must. If your horse becomes injured simply feed it in the same manner as you tamed him to restore his health. Of note is that if you quit the game while holding a rope attached to a horse, when you reenter it will be gone.
Notes
A known glitch of the horse is when you get stuck on it. This can be easily solved by saving and quitting then going back
